On Friday, 22 August 2025 at 23:59:52 UTC-7 aska...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, that's beyond the point. Sure, one can "demand" but the actual nature of the power relationship at many unis is a different one. I'm sure our CS department would prefer Linux running in the computers that their students use and tried demanding this but it didn't work, which makes it difficult to run certain courses. I currently don't teach but when I do again, if I want to run classes with Sage (increasing the teaching base), I will sadly require a non WSL option (which, as I say, we still have as they kept 9.1 although I suppose at one time it'll go).
I'd definitely recommend offering cloud access to sagemath if you require its use for a course. It removes all installation issues. You could try to get IT to set up a cloud server for you that runs locally but in a shop that's gone full MS (as it sounds in your case) they'd probably much rather pay for an outsourced version, in which case cocalc is probably worth checking out. Students who are interested in installing it on their own computer will be able to do it -- and those students would definitely have a machine that is not insanely locked down (is your university making available (university managed) laptops to all students? That's quite the service! Otherwise, the laptops that students have will not be locked down by IT, because those are not their machines). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/565424d9-e4fd-4704-8f34-411bdbf39cf6n%40googlegroups.com.